Play With Words | Contests and Challenges

In Play With Words, we aim to provide you with fun and interesting challenges/contests that help you improve your English writing while enjoying them.

Write To Rank 2023

A challenge for Action Writers. Can you survive nine rounds and earn your black belt?

The Cult of Romeo

❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, wh...

The Shadow Trials

Welcome to The Shadow Trials The Dark Fantasy profile opens the curtains for the Shadow Trials where only the darkest soul can win. [DISCONTINUED] Copyright 2023 - 2024

School of the Crown Assassins

[Wattys 2022 Shortlisted] [Wattys 2021 Shortlisted] The Crown Assassins rule the world's largest nation in a broken world where criminals sit on top. And Indigo is sick of it. As one of the lower members of the Court, Indigo Fluor is stuck in the prestigious Evandor Prep where Assassins, including the Crowns, learn...

March Home

[ Sci-Fi ] A "Little Women" retelling. Jo has survived an alien invasion and an HSV-11 outbreak, and must travel to Sector-4 to get her peptide approved and into production. Her sister, Beth, is infected and isn't faring well. She will suffer a fate worse than death if Jo can't get back in time with a treatment in han...

HamLIT [complete]

Hamlet is one of the wildest stories in human history. And it's about to be retold like it's never been told before. A storm brews in the illustrious town of Elsinore, Massachusetts, and no one knows it yet. Not Hamilton "Ham" Dane III, who's angry because his uncle has taken control of the family empire and started d...

Quantum Shift

Enforcement Officer Church Tyrell wants nothing more than to put her lethal talents to use, but instead she's deployed to collect taxes at a low-rent spaceport. But one person's trash heap can be another's prize. One big bust is all she needs to change her life and bring it meaning. Short story written for Ooorah's 'R...

Sound of Symphony Anthologies

Welcome to our Hall of Fame. To those who passed the exams and becoming the winner of our contests, please give them applouse when we upload their Master piece here, let Mozzart, Beethoven and Vivaldi hear your musical stories!

Super Blogger

Love, Crime, Action! When the world's richest blogger is secretly the world's only superhero... you'd think he couldn't have it any better. But throw an alien race of conquerors into the picture, and the 24-year-old Jason Leo McLean is on a mission to save Earth from a fullblown invasion while at the same time sorting...

Palace to Plunder (AMBW)

"Aye, I've never seen o' woman like 'er neither." The pirate replied. "Why is 'er skin so brown? I wasn't taught about women who look like this before." I spat at him. He threw his face back in disgust and released his hold on my wrist to wipe his face. "Bloody murder." He grunted. "Aye, feisty one isn't she?" "Don'...

Vampire's Pet

The world had gone to hell long ago, taken over by the vampire race. In order to keep some sort of peace in our land, the Vampire Lords made a consecutive agreement. The rich and powerful humans could survive just as they had been, untouched by the vampires save for the occasional blood collections, or so they thought...

Birthright: A Phoenix is Born

"This is your legacy, Damian. The legacy you inherit." "As the next Phoenix." These words sparked a shift in my life as an Irish teenager. I went from the unknown guy at the back of the classroom, chased by bullies and dumbstruck by love, to the only hope for a nation I've never heard of. To top it off, everyone arou...

Loopholes

Darcy Hotchner was nineteen and about to start a brand new life in college when she suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth. Two years later, with her family still pulling on a string of hope and all her friends being scattered around the world after graduation, a cry for help reaches their phones and forces t...

CASTERS

Four empires united by a powerful authority known as the "Magic Council", has reigned over the four corners of the earth for nearly a century. East, West, North, and South. These four empires are formally known as... "The Compass of Casters." The Compass controls the rotation of the earth and keeps peace and balance t...

Talon the Black (Dragonwall Series # 1)

When a wounded dragon falls from the sky, Claire Evans runs into a cornfield to rescue it. This isn't just any dragon, he's a shifter, one of six royal protectors, and helping him has consequences. Claire finds herself traipsing--or rather, flying--across the kingdom of Dragonwall. She must face Dragonwall's king. Kin...

Final Facet

Ren Asari doesn't believe in fate, but in an hour and thirty minutes, she's prophesized to die. Her skeptical quest for answers quickly becomes a race for survival -- but not necessarily her own. Short story written for the Ultimate SciFi Smack Down challenge (2021-2022).

The Boy Who Read Minds ✔️

Highest rank: #1 in Teen-Fiction and sci-fi romance, #1 mindreader, #2 humor Aaron's special power might just be the coolest- or scariest- thing ever! It's always helped with his bad-boy reputation, his rightfully arrogant all-knowing intimidation seemed to go a long way with his love life and somehow also his educati...

Shadow in the Water

'Rest easy, Rae. You are safe. No harm will come to you tonight. I swear it.' Rae MacCallahan hasn't fully gotten over the death of her mother, or the mystery of why she was the sole survivor from the crash of United Flight 427. Try as she might, she couldn't shake the feeling that there was something else at play tha...

Infatuation of a Merman

They lure you into the waters, twisting their haunted melody. You don't feel a thing as you drown into the sea, unaware of your new deathbed. Only once they sink their teeth into your soft skin will you feel the agony and realize your mistake. They are mermaids, the ones who leave nothing but bones in their wake. They...

The Duke's Prize

The Duke of Marlborough, a wealthy rake with the reputation of the Devil, wins an unusual prize in a game of cards, the prickly and thorny Cordelia Rivers.

A Change of Heart

[Wattpad Picks: Up And Coming, June 2018] [Design Wizard's list of the world's 50 Best Wattpad Stories of 2018] Protected by a powerful magical shield called the Aegis, Athens in 1490 is a bubble of paradise amid a world collapsing from the Plague's assault. When the Aegis itself begins to fail, four young mages fro...

Missing in the Pages (Pirates #1)

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Burrough has never felt more alone since the death of her father. Ostracized at school and ignored at home by her perpetually grieving mother, Elizabeth's only source of comfort is her favorite book filled with daring swordfights and swashbuckling pirates. But when she wakes up one morning...

Altered

'They wore uniform grey, their expression hard and distant, their muscles taut with expectation, as if at any moment they were ready to lead an assault, to carry out orders, to kill, to die. And yet they were. Kingston had trained these children to kill at a word, to obey their masters without question. They were mach...

Dark waters

As the small girl walked, his eyes lay on her tiny figure; watching her every movement. Like a predator would stalk his prey. She continued to walk with her back faced to the creature, oblivious to all. Like a lamb before the slaughter. If only she would have stayed at home. ***** Annabelle was sent to go live with he...